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▪ I. garboil, n. Obs. exc. arch.|ˈgɑːbɔɪl|
Forms: 6–7 garboyl, -boile, (6 -broyl, Sc. -bulle), 6–9 -boyle, 6– garboil.
[ad. OF. garbouil, garbouille (= Sp. garbullo), ad. It. garbuglio, connected with L. bullīre to boil; the origin of the prefixed element is disputed.]
Confusion, disturbance, tumult; an instance of this, a brawl, hubbub, hurlyburly.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xxi. 165 When ye shal heare all the worlde to bee in a garboile of sedicions. 1562Randolph in G. Chalmers Mary Q. Scot. (1818) I. 86 In all those garbulles, I assure your honour, I never saw the Queen merrier. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 55 The Citie of Lisbon, as also all the rest, were in great garboile. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 66 Whiles Commodus was Emperour, Britannie was all of a Garboile. a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 112 To cut that intricate knot, that makes such a garboyle in the text. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 426 He journied to Rome..but..raising great garboyles among the Scholars of that place, Cardinal Boncompagno..expelled him thence. 1755Johnson, Garboil. 1864Burton Scot Abr. III. ii. 148 Before the intestine garboyles of this island. 1891Nat. Rev. July 669 Far from the moiling crowd and garboyle of the world.
▪ II. † ˈgarboil, v. Obs.
Also 6 garboyle.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To confuse, agitate, disturb.
1572H. Middlemore in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 5 The occasion presently offeryd, of the Lowe Contreys so greatly garboyled. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits vii. (1596) 101 Amongst the first qualities, there is none which so much garboileth this power as excessiue heat.
¶ Erroneously for garble v. in various senses.
1555Eden Decades 332 Meltynge, fynynge, dryinge, garboylyng, and such other broylynges. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 382 By their authority they thrust in themselues, to glosse the Bible, and garboile the scripture. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 201/2 Take a wilde Ducke, plucke him, and garboyle him. a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) II. 3 To tip down so many Lords at a time and to garboil the House, as often as any party should have a great majority. 1720Stow's Surv. Lond. (ed. Strype) II. v. xiv. 229/1 They did garboil out of every hundred the Half of such Baggage and Refuse Stuff. |